Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

[Olivier Ripoll]

Hi Uwe,

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

- I can do a pdf with it fine, but the update does not work 
however my pdf viewer is Foxit 2.0, not Acrobat (which I do have 
installed, but not as default pdf reader), so it might be related to 
this.


I'll have a look, The registry settings made ba Adobe Reader are really 
complicated. Normally it should be correctly detected that Foxit is the 
default.
Now you have in your preferences for the PDF-format the viewer 
PDFViewWin7, correct?


No, it's PDFViewWin8. PDFViewWin7 does crash when I use it instead.

But what I noticed is that if I type some text, then view the pdf, do 
not close the pdf document, modify the LyX document and generate a new 
pdf, it will open but with the same content as the old one. If instead, 
after viewing, I close the pdf document, the one generated after the 
modifications will be up-to-date.


- The first time I press ctrl-m to type a formula, 4 identical lines 
are printed in the console saying:

QFontengineWin: GetTextMetrics failed ()
No bad effect though, just this message.


Could you please report this to bugzilla?


Well, after changing the LyX.py, I cannot see it anymore (I do not 
remember changing anything else on this machine).




regards Uwe



Best regards,

Olivier

Type 1 CM in LyX

[John Hughes]

When I export PDF documents from LyX for Windows (using any method), it uses 
the bitmap versions of the Computer Modern fonts. However, if I export a tex 
file to PDF through the Texmaker editor (again with Windows), it uses Type 1 
Computer Modern fonts. Why is this?


John

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Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution

[José Matos]

On Sunday 04 February 2007 2:29:04 pm Georg Baum wrote:

 What happens if you run the python interpreter by hand and then type

 import unicodedata

 ? If it prints nothing, then your python installation is OK, and I would
 guess that LyX finds another (incomplete) python installation. If it
 prints an error message then something with your python installation is
 wrong.

  Just for completeness it works on linux for both python 2.4 and 2.5, as it 
should according to http://docs.python.org/lib/module-unicodedata.html

  So if it does not work there is something wrong with your installation. :-(

 Georg

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Re: BibTeX and master documents

[Daniel Lohmann]

Thanks Richard,

Works like a charm :-)

Daniel

Richard Heck wrote:
 Use the technique mentioned here:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChildMathMacros. More or less. And see below.
 1) Define a variable \master in the preamble of the master document
 before including the common preamble:
 Define it to mean something.
 \def\master*{whatever}*
 \input{preamble.tex}

 Don't need any of this.
 2) Define a new \ifnomaster in the common preamble that tests for
 \master being defined or not

 % common preamble, input'ed into all children and the master
 \newif\ifnomaster
 \ifx\master\undefined
   \nomastertrue
 \else
   \nomasterfalse
 \fi

 3) Use ERT boxes to conditionally include the bibliography at the end
 of each child:

 ??ERT[*\ifx\master\undefined*]
 [BibTeX Generated Bibliography]
 ERT[\fi]
 Richard
 
 
 

Re: Too many indices, LoT, LoF?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Curtis Osterhoudt wrote:
 Hi, all,Upon compiling my LyX document, which contains lots of
 Includes, a Table of Contents, Index, Lists of Figures and Tables, etc.,
 the LyX frontend reports that there's No room for a new \write
 (similarly, using pdflatex from the command line on the .tex file fails).
 I've done a little searching online; most if not all of the documents I've
 found reference the Memoir class (which I'm not using; this happens to be a
 Koma-script Report master document), but it seems that it's actually more
 of an underlying TeX problem, and I simply have too many Indices, Lists,
 etc.  

Seems so. TeX is limited in this regard (to 16 \write streams). Cf.
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noroom

 As an attempt to remedy this, and get a nicely compiled document, 
 I've gone through each of the constituent files and deleted the any
 Indexes or Bibliography[ies] which are in comment boxes (I put them
 in originally to test indices and bibliographies for each individual file).

That won't help. Things in comment boxes are skipped by LaTeX anyway.

 However, this does not solve the problem, and I *still* get No room for a
 new \write and Bad number {16} as error messages from LyX. Has
 anyone run into this, and solved it? The documentation for the Memoir class
 says I have no recourse but to rearrange my document. How do people write
 books with this TeX limitation? Would it help to switch to TeX Live or
 something?  Thanks!   Curtis O.

There's no way to get rid of this limitation. You probably have to comment out 
the remaining Bibliographies, Indexes etc. by and by and see if that helps. 
Rearranging the document might indeed help as well, since the problem is not 
necessarily too many objects, but that too many write streams are used (TeX 
does not necessarily need one stream per object).

HTH,
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Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 04-02-2007 for Windows

[Nick Hopton]

In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uwe Stöhr 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote.


[...]

I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 04-02-2007:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_
id=12174

This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced in 
the last release from 01-02-2007.

[...]

Looking good here Uwe, so far. Old documents that wouldn't open in the 
last Alpha release open just fine now, as do the 'help' files.


One tiny but curious thing, I'm using Adobe Reader to view PDFs. When I 
press the PDF-button the PDF is produced, but the Reader window doesn't 
open, it stays closed on the taskbar. It's easy enough to pop this up to 
view the document, of course.


Regards and thanks,
Nick.

--
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Caversham, Reading, England
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 04-02-2007 for Windows

[Nick Hopton]

In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Hopton 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote.

[...]

I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 04-02-2007:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_
id=12174

This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced 
in the last release from 01-02-2007.

[...]

Looking good here Uwe, so far. Old documents that wouldn't open in the 
last Alpha release open just fine now, as do the 'help' files.

[...]

I spoke too soon! The help document 'LyX's detailed Figure, Table, 
Floats, Notes, and Boxes manual, by the LyX Team Version 1.5.0-1' loads 
into LyX all right, but it won't produce a DVI or a PDF. It fails with a 
LaTeX Errors Box saying 'LaTeX Error: File 
`45C__Program_Files_LyX_1_5alpha-04-02-2007_Resources___doc'.


Regards,
Nick.
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Caversham, Reading, England
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[announce] LyX150alpha from 04-02-2007 for Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Hello LyXTesters,

I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 04-02-2007:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12174

This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced in the last release from 
01-02-2007.


Now this know problem should is fixed with the new MiKTeX version that comes together with this 
installer:


- LyX's package and class database is incomplete when you don't have an
  open internet connection while LyX is first started. (This is a bug in 
MiKTeX.)
  Workaround: open an internet connection and reconfigure LyX

This hopefully also kills the textclass not found problem. Please report me if 
you
still have this problem.

!You don't need to reinstall MiKTeX to benefit from the fix, the installer will ask you to update 
MiKTeX.

Press Yes when this question is shown and that's it.

---

Here are the other changes:

- LyX 1.5alpha from 04-02-2007

- installer bugfixes introduced in the last release from 01-02-2007
- updated to MiKTeX 2.5.2580
- fix bug that other PDF viewers then Acrobat/Adobe Reader and GSView weren't 
recognized

Thanks to Allesandro Garberi:
- updated Italian translation of the installer

---

happy testing and best regards
Uwe

--- disclaimer ---
LyX' test builds are for testers and interested LyXers to see the new
features.
If you find bugs, please have a look at
http://bugzilla.lyx.org
and report them there if they aren't already reported.

Note! LyX150alpha is still in alpha state, that means it is under very
active development. Therefore things can change every day, so
don't use LyX1.5svn for production!

Error on startup

[Kyle]

Hello,

I am receiving this error on startup:

LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!

I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete installer
to see if this makes a difference.

Any thoughts?

Kyle 

Re: Error on startup

[Kyle]

Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 
 Hello,
 
 I am receiving this error on startup:
 
 LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
 
 I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete 
 installer
 to see if this makes a difference.
 
 Any thoughts?
 
 Kyle 
 
 

Just did a re-install with all options to update and am still getting the same
error.

Kyle

RE: Re: Error on startup

[Steven Harms \(stharms\)]

Kyle,

I just tried the same thing last night - same issue.  

This is on WinXP ( my other install into CYGWIN and OSX went fine ).
Nevertheless this is something that I, too, am seeing.

Steven
 

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:45 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Error on startup

Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 
 Hello,
 
 I am receiving this error on startup:
 
 LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
 
 I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete 
 installer to see if this makes a difference.
 
 Any thoughts?
 
 Kyle
 
 

Just did a re-install with all options to update and am still getting
the same error.

Kyle

RE: Re: Error on startup

[Steven Harms \(stharms\)]

Actually, per Uwe's post earlier that perhaps the version of MiKTeX was
to blame, I did the update and am still having the issue you reported.

sgh
 

-Original Message-
From: Steven Harms (stharms) 
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 9:18 AM
To: Kyle; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: RE: Re: Error on startup

Kyle,

I just tried the same thing last night - same issue.  

This is on WinXP ( my other install into CYGWIN and OSX went fine ).
Nevertheless this is something that I, too, am seeing.

Steven
 

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:45 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Error on startup

Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 
 Hello,
 
 I am receiving this error on startup:
 
 LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
 
 I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete 
 installer to see if this makes a difference.
 
 Any thoughts?
 
 Kyle
 
 

Just did a re-install with all options to update and am still getting
the same error.

Kyle

Re: Using ACM and APA styles in LyX?

[Richard Heck]

The only classes you'll see in LyX itself are ones for which there are
layouts. To use the ACM class from LyX, you'll have to find or produce a
layout for it. Someone may have one, but one doesn't ship with LyX.

Steve Litt has a lot of experience with layouts. It's not terribly,
terribly hard to do, but it takes some work.

Richard

B. Bogart wrote:
 Hi Richard,

 I changed from tetex to texlive but I'm not seeing any change in the
 document classes I see in lyx.

 From tex info I can see the following classes I'm looking for:

 acmconf.cls
 acmtrans2e.cls
 apa.cls

 The document classes I can choose from document settings are:

 Article (APA)

 But no ACM.

 I don't see a good correlation between the list of document class and
 the text info list of classes.

 Any further suggestions?

 Thanks,
 B. Bogart


 Richard Heck wrote:
   
 LyX does have an APA layout, so you should be able to use it. Check to
 make sure you do have the APA document class installed and that LaTeX
 can see it (run texhash as root) and then reconfigure LyX (Tools 
 Reconfigure). You can use Tools  Tex Info to check what LyX thinks is
 there.

 I don't see an ACM layout. Anybody got one? It's unlikely it'd be hard
 to create one if not.

 As for references, natbib isn't a bibliography style but something more
 general. You can use apalike with it, to be sure. You can also use
 apacite by itself (and the apa.layout file seems to load apacite.sty,
 which you'd also want). Just choose default for your citation style
 and then, when you put the bibliography in its place (Insert  List
 
 Bibliography), choose apacite as your style. Of course, you'll need
   
 to make sure that's installed, too.

 Richard

 B. Bogart wrote:
 
 Hello all,

 I'm new to tex/latex/lyx but need to write papers in ACM and APA
 formats. I see that the package texlive-publishers includes APA and ACM
 document classes, and I have the package installed, but lyx does not see
 those templates.

 How can I use lyx to write APA and ACM papers? I also need my citations
 and bibliographies to be in the proper APA format, but lyx seems to only
 give three types citation styles? (default,natbib,jurabib)

 FYI I'm using the ubuntu edgy packages of lyx/tex

 Thanks all.

 B. Bogart



   
 

   


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Re: Error on startup

[Paul A. Rubin]

Kyle wrote:

Hello,

I am receiving this error on startup:

LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!

I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete installer
to see if this makes a difference.

Any thoughts?

Kyle 





Would this by any chance be on Windows, with MikTeX?  If so, there are a 
variety of potential problems.  If it's under OS/X or Linux, that's 
something else entirely.


/Paul

RE: Re: Error on startup

[Steven Harms \(stharms\)]

My instance of this issue is on XP.
 

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:45 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Error on startup

Kyle wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I am receiving this error on startup:
 
 LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
 
 I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete 
 installer to see if this makes a difference.
 
 Any thoughts?
 
 Kyle
 
 

Would this by any chance be on Windows, with MikTeX?  If so, there are a
variety of potential problems.  If it's under OS/X or Linux, that's
something else entirely.

/Paul

Re: Error on startup

[Paul A. Rubin]

Steven Harms (stharms) wrote:

My instance of this issue is on XP.


The following are listed in no particular order:

1.  When the LyX configuration script runs, it tests for the presence of 
some common LaTeX classes by attempting to compile a test document using 
each class.  If you are using MikTeX (as I suspect), and some of the 
classes are not yet installed, MikTeX will either (a) fail to compile 
the test documents, (b) attempt to download and install the missing 
classes, or (c) prompt you for permission to install them, depending on 
how it is set up.  Case (a) should result in the configuration script 
correctly recognizing that the classes are missing (letting it move on 
to other things).  Case (b), or case (c) if you answer 'yes', can run 
into problems if either you do not have an active Internet connection or 
the server from which MikTeX tries to download the packages becomes 
unresponsive.  The workaround for this is either to set MikTeX not to 
download missing packages (through MikTeX's Options program) or to 
answer 'no' if it prompts you.  Packages can always be downloaded and 
installed later (after which LyX should be reconfigured).


2.  If your XP account is set up to use a remote server (particularly if 
accessed by a UNC) as your home, misadventures will occur during 
configuration.  I think LyX should pop up a message specific to this, 
but I won't swear to it.  If you're not sure where your home is, open a 
DOS prompt and run 'set h'.  Look for HOMEDRIVE (hopefully C:, hopefully 
not \\someserver) and HOMEPATH.


3.  If you have both MikTeX and some other LaTeX program installed, with 
the other one first in the system command path, strange things can 
happen.  I used to have Cygwin installed, with Cygwin's bin directory 
(containing a version of latex.exe) ahead of MikTeX's bin directory on 
my path.  Cygwin's latex.exe didn't work with LyX, and since it was the 
one LyX found, configuration failed.


If none of this provides an answer, try the following.  Using Win 
Explorer to delete C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Application 
Data\LyX1.4.x (if it exists) and anything in it.  Open a DOS prompt in
C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Application Data.  Run 'path to 
LyX\python\python.exe path to LyX\Resources\configure.py'.  If it 
produces (in .\LyX1.4.x) a textclass.lst file with length  0, you 
should be able to run LyX.  If not, post the output and maybe someone 
can spot a clue.


HTH,

/Paul

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

I'll have a look, The registry settings made ba Adobe Reader are 
really complicated. Normally it should be correctly detected that 
Foxit is the default.
Now you have in your preferences for the PDF-format the viewer 
PDFViewWin7, correct?


No, it's PDFViewWin8. PDFViewWin7 does crash when I use it instead.


OK, then I made again a mistake in the latest version. Adober Reader seems to be very agressive once 
it is installed and sets registry values it shouldn't set when it isn't the default PDF viewer.


I'll fixx this for the next version with another way.

thanks for the info and regards
Uwe

Do not use LyX 1.5alpha releases from 01-02-2007 and 04-02-2007!

[Uwe Stöhr]

Hello Testers,

now I can reproduce all your problems here on a different machine. The problem are some missing 
unicode files in the Python distribution I shipped. As I have a full Python installation on nearly 
all of the machines I have access so I never noticed this problematic.
I'll provide another version tomorrow with the fixed python and the this time hopefully the correct 
fix for the PDF viewer problem.


(And it this is not enough it seems that the latest MiKTeX introduced a new bug, I'll have a closer 
look.)


I can understand if you now think that I'm an inaccurate dabbler - two buggy releases within one 
week is not excusable.


Shame on me!
Uwe

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

[Olivier Ripoll]

Olivier Ripoll wrote:

Hi Uwe,

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

- The first time I press ctrl-m to type a formula, 4 identical lines 
are printed in the console saying:

QFontengineWin: GetTextMetrics failed ()
No bad effect though, just this message.


Could you please report this to bugzilla?


Well, after changing the LyX.py, I cannot see it anymore (I do not 
remember changing anything else on this machine).


Haha kind of Murphy's law. I un-installed the old svn snapshot to 
update to 3-07 (04/02's  version) and I got these warnings again. Even 
after changing the LyX.py file. I guess I should open a bug report then. ;)


Best regards,

Olivier.

Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 04-02-2007 for Windows

[Olivier Ripoll]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Hello LyXTesters,

I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 04-02-2007:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12174 



This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced in 
the last release from 01-02-2007.


Ok, I've just installed it:
- PDFViewWin8 is still the program one set for viewing pdfs
- PDFViewWin7 still crashes
- The first ctrl-m spits 4 error lines in the console (already 
mentioned, I'll open a bug for this)
- I cannot open the help files. I have the same errors mentioned in this 
thread (unicodedata related). I do not have python installed, except 
with LyX, Inkscape and OOo directories.
- pdf updating does nothing. pdf viewing only give and up-to-date pdf if 
the old instance of the document is closed before generation.


Best regards,

Olivier.

PS: I found some unicodedata.py[ cd] on the web and on my HD (inkscape, 
OOo). Where should I drop them in LyX directories to have it to be 
recognised ?

How to keeping Enumerate items together?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

In my book created with the Book document class, I have a four item bullet 
list in environment Itemize. It pagebreaks after the second item, and even 
more lame than that, the next page is consumed with a graphic float, so the 
reader has to skip 2 pages to see the other two items.

Within my layout file, is there a simple way I can modify the Itemize 
environment so it tries hard not to break in the middle?

I'd like to stay with the Book document class, as my base document class, if 
at all possible. My experience is that when you keep switching base document 
classes to gain individual features, for every problem you solve two new ones 
pop up. Kind of like my hair :-)

Thanks

SteveT

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Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Do not use LyX 1.5alpha releases from 01-02-2007 and 04-02-2007!

[Olivier Ripoll]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Hello Testers,

now I can reproduce all your problems here on a different machine. The 
problem are some missing unicode files in the Python distribution I 
shipped. As I have a full Python installation on nearly all of the 
machines I have access so I never noticed this problematic.
I'll provide another version tomorrow with the fixed python and the this 
time hopefully the correct fix for the PDF viewer problem.


(And it this is not enough it seems that the latest MiKTeX introduced a 
new bug, I'll have a closer look.)


I can understand if you now think that I'm an inaccurate dabbler - two 
buggy releases within one week is not excusable.


Shame on me!
Uwe


No problem, I do not rely on LyX on Windows yet, I am just testing it.

Keep up the good work!

Best regards,

Olivier.

Re: Too many indices, LoT, LoF?

[curtis osterhoudt]

- Original Message 
From: Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, February 5, 2007 2:53:13 AM
Subject: Re: Too many indices, LoT, LoF?

Curtis Osterhoudt wrote:
 Hi, all,Upon compiling my LyX document, which contains lots of
 Includes, a Table of Contents, Index, Lists of Figures and Tables, etc.,
 the LyX frontend reports that there's No room for a new \write
 (similarly, using pdflatex from the command line on the .tex file fails).
 I've done a little searching online; most if not all of the documents I've
 found reference the Memoir class (which I'm not using; this happens to be a
 Koma-script Report master document), but it seems that it's actually more
 of an underlying TeX problem, and I simply have too many Indices, Lists,
 etc.  

Seems so. TeX is limited in this regard (to 16 \write streams). Cf.
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noroom

 As an attempt to remedy this, and get a nicely compiled document, 
 I've gone through each of the constituent files and deleted the any
 Indexes or Bibliography[ies] which are in comment boxes (I put them
 in originally to test indices and bibliographies for each individual file).

That won't help. Things in comment boxes are skipped by LaTeX anyway.

 However, this does not solve the problem, and I *still* get No room for a
 new \write and Bad number {16} as error messages from LyX. Has
 anyone run into this, and solved it? The documentation for the Memoir class
 says I have no recourse but to rearrange my document. How do people write
 books with this TeX limitation? Would it help to switch to TeX Live or
 something?  Thanks!   Curtis O.

There's no way to get rid of this limitation. You probably have to comment out 
the remaining Bibliographies, Indexes etc. by and by and see if that helps. 
Rearranging the document might indeed help as well, since the problem is not 
necessarily too many objects, but that too many write streams are used (TeX 
does not necessarily need one stream per object).

HTH,
Jürgen



==
Hi, LyXers,

 (I'm the same Curtis O. who sent the original message, but am sending from 
a different account, as Hotmail seems to fumble formatting from non-IE 
browsers.)

Thanks especially to Jürgen and Hellmut for their replies!

 I have solved the problem (at least temporarily), but through very little 
directed effort of my own. In attempting to get my master document back to the 
way it was a few days ago, I did a recovery of a backup file. Unfortunately, I 
wasn't very careful about how I did it, and managed to wipe out my entire 
thesis directory. Scary, but I had other backups (yay!). These other backups, 
however, did not include some work I'd done over the weekend, and so I was very 
sad (aw...). Luckily, LyX stores its information in files which can be grepped, 
so I learned far more about recovering files using grep than I've ever wanted 
to know. Although they appeared to be erased (and I use an ext3 filesystem, so 
recovery efforts are somewhat uncertain), I was able to recover the work I'd 
done on the weekend. 
  Once I had that back, I was in a perturbed enough state to really go 
through my master document and move things around (for example, I had a Front 
Matter file included in the master file, which itself included the front 
pages, signature page, acknowledgements and introduction to my thesis). I 
ripped out a lot of nested includes and more sanely arranged things in the 
master file -- this seems to be what Jürgen suggests, above. 

  Now things work, and look nicer than ever.

   On a  related note, I have always included an acknowledgement of the LyX 
team in a Technical Notes section of my thesis. This reads
 This document was written almost entirely in LyX. A huge 
heartfelt thanks is extended to the LyX developers.
  I'd like to know if this is acceptable to the developers.

  Thanks again!
 Curtis O.








 

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Re: Too many indices, LoT, LoF?

[José Matos]

On Monday 05 February 2007 6:49:20 pm curtis osterhoudt wrote:
       Now things work, and look nicer than ever.

        On a  related note, I have always included an acknowledgement of the
 LyX team in a Technical Notes section of my thesis. This reads This
 document was written almost entirely in LyX. A huge heartfelt thanks is
 extended to the LyX developers. I'd like to know if this is acceptable to
 the developers.

  You are welcome. :-)

       Thanks again!
                          Curtis O.

-- 
José Abílio

Re: Do not use LyX 1.5alpha releases from 01-02-2007 and 04-02-2007!

[Mihai Nica]

it is very much excusable when it is about FREE software. it would be 
inexcusable if somebody would complain :-)

thanks!

- Original Message 
From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LyX Users List lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, February 5, 2007 12:05:29 PM
Subject: Do not use LyX 1.5alpha releases from 01-02-2007 and 04-02-2007!

Hello Testers,

now I can reproduce all your problems here on a different machine. The problem 
are some missing 
unicode files in the Python distribution I shipped. As I have a full Python 
installation on nearly 
all of the machines I have access so I never noticed this problematic.
I'll provide another version tomorrow with the fixed python and the this time 
hopefully the correct 
fix for the PDF viewer problem.

(And it this is not enough it seems that the latest MiKTeX introduced a new 
bug, I'll have a closer 
look.)

I can understand if you now think that I'm an inaccurate dabbler - two buggy 
releases within one 
week is not excusable.

Shame on me!
Uwe







 

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Re: Error on startup

[Ira]

Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 
 Steven Harms (stharms) wrote:
  My instance of this issue is on XP.
 
 The following are listed in no particular order:
 
 1.  When the LyX configuration script runs, it tests for the presence of 
 some common LaTeX classes by attempting to compile a test document using 
 each class.  If you are using MikTeX (as I suspect), and some of the 
 classes are not yet installed, MikTeX will either (a) fail to compile 
 the test documents, (b) attempt to download and install the missing 
 classes, or (c) prompt you for permission to install them, depending on 
 how it is set up.  Case (a) should result in the configuration script 
 correctly recognizing that the classes are missing (letting it move on 
 to other things).  Case (b), or case (c) if you answer 'yes', can run 
 into problems if either you do not have an active Internet connection or 
 the server from which MikTeX tries to download the packages becomes 
 unresponsive.  The workaround for this is either to set MikTeX not to 
 download missing packages (through MikTeX's Options program) or to 
 answer 'no' if it prompts you.  Packages can always be downloaded and 
 installed later (after which LyX should be reconfigured).
 


I was having a similar problem as the original poster on a XP box with MikTeX. I
found that if I deleted the textclass.lst and packages.lst files in my
application data folder and then re-started LyX, I was then given the option to
install missing MikTeX packages.  This time I hit cancel for every one of them
(I had about 30 with the default MikTeX install) and at the end, LyX popped up
fine.  For some reason when I tried to download and install a package from the
MikTeX updater launched by LyX, I was immediately given an error message the LyX
was unable to start.  I was able to install the packages just fine from the
MikTeX package browser utility.  

-Ira  

Re: How to keeping Enumerate items together?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Steve Litt wrote:


In my book created with the Book document class, I have a four item bullet 
list in environment Itemize. It pagebreaks after the second item, and even 
more lame than that, the next page is consumed with a graphic float, so the 
reader has to skip 2 pages to see the other two items.


Perhaps something at 
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nopagebrk will be of 
help.  I'm not sure there's a happy resolution (other than delaying the 
float by a page).  Keeping all four list items on the first page might 
cause a serious margin overrun, and moving all four to the next page 
might leave you with too much empty space.


Within my layout file, is there a simple way I can modify the Itemize 
environment so it tries hard not to break in the middle?


Be careful what you wish for.  This is liable to leave you with some 
large blocks of empty space at the ends of pages (assuming you can make 
it work).


I'd like to stay with the Book document class, as my base document class, if 
at all possible. My experience is that when you keep switching base document 
classes to gain individual features, for every problem you solve two new ones 
pop up. Kind of like my hair :-)


If two new hairs pop up where previously there were none, patent the 
formula!

Having my own layout removes navigation in LyX 1.4.2

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

As you all remember, when I switched to LyX 1.4.2 I griped that one of my 
books no longer had navigation.

Now the other shoe dropped. I've been writing a new book, using the book 
document class in LyX 1.4.2, and everything went well, with navigation and 
everything. Then I created my own layout file, deriving a tsjsbook layout 
derived from the book class. My new layout was minimal -- it did nothing 
except create a new environment called Story, which worked perfectly well 
when converting to dvi.

Trouble is, now when I try to do navigation in LyX itself, there's no 
navigation. The Nativate menu item lists only Bookmarks, Next Note, and List 
of Figures.

Also, one of my first books no longer works at all -- with the text going 
right up to the top of the page on every page.

What changed in 1.4.2 over the 1.3.x series? I'm in big trouble with all these 
books made in 1.3.x, and the inability to use navigation in 1.4.2 if I've 
created my own layout file is troubling indeed.

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Alt key stuck

[sas262_lists]

Hi I have something weird going on - 

whenever I press one of the following keys - pskxcm - and as far as I
can tell only those keys, Lyx thinks I had Meta-keyed instead. (e.g. I
press s and get Alt+S options: T Shift+S ... etc.)

tried clean reinstall, no good.

using Windows XP, tried with LyxWin1435Small-2-9 and ver 1435 from
lyx.org.

otherwise everything seems to be working.

Any ideas?

Seth
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Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

[Olivier Ripoll]

Hi Uwe,

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

- I can do a pdf with it fine, but the update does not work 
however my pdf viewer is Foxit 2.0, not Acrobat (which I do have 
installed, but not as default pdf reader), so it might be related to 
this.


I'll have a look, The registry settings made ba Adobe Reader are really 
complicated. Normally it should be correctly detected that Foxit is the 
default.
Now you have in your preferences for the PDF-format the viewer 
PDFViewWin7, correct?


No, it's PDFViewWin8. PDFViewWin7 does crash when I use it instead.

But what I noticed is that if I type some text, then view the pdf, do 
not close the pdf document, modify the LyX document and generate a new 
pdf, it will open but with the same content as the old one. If instead, 
after viewing, I close the pdf document, the one generated after the 
modifications will be up-to-date.


- The first time I press ctrl-m to type a formula, 4 identical lines 
are printed in the console saying:

QFontengineWin: GetTextMetrics failed ()
No bad effect though, just this message.


Could you please report this to bugzilla?


Well, after changing the LyX.py, I cannot see it anymore (I do not 
remember changing anything else on this machine).




regards Uwe



Best regards,

Olivier

Type 1 CM in LyX

[John Hughes]

When I export PDF documents from LyX for Windows (using any method), it uses 
the bitmap versions of the Computer Modern fonts. However, if I export a tex 
file to PDF through the Texmaker editor (again with Windows), it uses Type 1 
Computer Modern fonts. Why is this?


John

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Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution

[José Matos]

On Sunday 04 February 2007 2:29:04 pm Georg Baum wrote:

 What happens if you run the python interpreter by hand and then type

 import unicodedata

 ? If it prints nothing, then your python installation is OK, and I would
 guess that LyX finds another (incomplete) python installation. If it
 prints an error message then something with your python installation is
 wrong.

  Just for completeness it works on linux for both python 2.4 and 2.5, as it 
should according to http://docs.python.org/lib/module-unicodedata.html

  So if it does not work there is something wrong with your installation. :-(

 Georg

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Re: BibTeX and master documents

[Daniel Lohmann]

Thanks Richard,

Works like a charm :-)

Daniel

Richard Heck wrote:
 Use the technique mentioned here:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChildMathMacros. More or less. And see below.
 1) Define a variable \master in the preamble of the master document
 before including the common preamble:
 Define it to mean something.
 \def\master*{whatever}*
 \input{preamble.tex}

 Don't need any of this.
 2) Define a new \ifnomaster in the common preamble that tests for
 \master being defined or not

 % common preamble, input'ed into all children and the master
 \newif\ifnomaster
 \ifx\master\undefined
   \nomastertrue
 \else
   \nomasterfalse
 \fi

 3) Use ERT boxes to conditionally include the bibliography at the end
 of each child:

 ??ERT[*\ifx\master\undefined*]
 [BibTeX Generated Bibliography]
 ERT[\fi]
 Richard
 
 
 

Re: Too many indices, LoT, LoF?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Curtis Osterhoudt wrote:
 Hi, all,Upon compiling my LyX document, which contains lots of
 Includes, a Table of Contents, Index, Lists of Figures and Tables, etc.,
 the LyX frontend reports that there's No room for a new \write
 (similarly, using pdflatex from the command line on the .tex file fails).
 I've done a little searching online; most if not all of the documents I've
 found reference the Memoir class (which I'm not using; this happens to be a
 Koma-script Report master document), but it seems that it's actually more
 of an underlying TeX problem, and I simply have too many Indices, Lists,
 etc.  

Seems so. TeX is limited in this regard (to 16 \write streams). Cf.
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noroom

 As an attempt to remedy this, and get a nicely compiled document, 
 I've gone through each of the constituent files and deleted the any
 Indexes or Bibliography[ies] which are in comment boxes (I put them
 in originally to test indices and bibliographies for each individual file).

That won't help. Things in comment boxes are skipped by LaTeX anyway.

 However, this does not solve the problem, and I *still* get No room for a
 new \write and Bad number {16} as error messages from LyX. Has
 anyone run into this, and solved it? The documentation for the Memoir class
 says I have no recourse but to rearrange my document. How do people write
 books with this TeX limitation? Would it help to switch to TeX Live or
 something?  Thanks!   Curtis O.

There's no way to get rid of this limitation. You probably have to comment out 
the remaining Bibliographies, Indexes etc. by and by and see if that helps. 
Rearranging the document might indeed help as well, since the problem is not 
necessarily too many objects, but that too many write streams are used (TeX 
does not necessarily need one stream per object).

HTH,
Jürgen

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Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 04-02-2007 for Windows

[Nick Hopton]

In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uwe Stöhr 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote.


[...]

I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 04-02-2007:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_
id=12174

This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced in 
the last release from 01-02-2007.

[...]

Looking good here Uwe, so far. Old documents that wouldn't open in the 
last Alpha release open just fine now, as do the 'help' files.


One tiny but curious thing, I'm using Adobe Reader to view PDFs. When I 
press the PDF-button the PDF is produced, but the Reader window doesn't 
open, it stays closed on the taskbar. It's easy enough to pop this up to 
view the document, of course.


Regards and thanks,
Nick.

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Caversham, Reading, England
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 04-02-2007 for Windows

[Nick Hopton]

In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Hopton 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote.

[...]

I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 04-02-2007:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_
id=12174

This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced 
in the last release from 01-02-2007.

[...]

Looking good here Uwe, so far. Old documents that wouldn't open in the 
last Alpha release open just fine now, as do the 'help' files.

[...]

I spoke too soon! The help document 'LyX's detailed Figure, Table, 
Floats, Notes, and Boxes manual, by the LyX Team Version 1.5.0-1' loads 
into LyX all right, but it won't produce a DVI or a PDF. It fails with a 
LaTeX Errors Box saying 'LaTeX Error: File 
`45C__Program_Files_LyX_1_5alpha-04-02-2007_Resources___doc'.


Regards,
Nick.
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[announce] LyX150alpha from 04-02-2007 for Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Hello LyXTesters,

I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 04-02-2007:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12174

This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced in the last release from 
01-02-2007.


Now this know problem should is fixed with the new MiKTeX version that comes together with this 
installer:


- LyX's package and class database is incomplete when you don't have an
  open internet connection while LyX is first started. (This is a bug in 
MiKTeX.)
  Workaround: open an internet connection and reconfigure LyX

This hopefully also kills the textclass not found problem. Please report me if 
you
still have this problem.

!You don't need to reinstall MiKTeX to benefit from the fix, the installer will ask you to update 
MiKTeX.

Press Yes when this question is shown and that's it.

---

Here are the other changes:

- LyX 1.5alpha from 04-02-2007

- installer bugfixes introduced in the last release from 01-02-2007
- updated to MiKTeX 2.5.2580
- fix bug that other PDF viewers then Acrobat/Adobe Reader and GSView weren't 
recognized

Thanks to Allesandro Garberi:
- updated Italian translation of the installer

---

happy testing and best regards
Uwe

--- disclaimer ---
LyX' test builds are for testers and interested LyXers to see the new
features.
If you find bugs, please have a look at
http://bugzilla.lyx.org
and report them there if they aren't already reported.

Note! LyX150alpha is still in alpha state, that means it is under very
active development. Therefore things can change every day, so
don't use LyX1.5svn for production!

Error on startup

[Kyle]

Hello,

I am receiving this error on startup:

LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!

I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete installer
to see if this makes a difference.

Any thoughts?

Kyle 

Re: Error on startup

[Kyle]

Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 
 Hello,
 
 I am receiving this error on startup:
 
 LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
 
 I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete 
 installer
 to see if this makes a difference.
 
 Any thoughts?
 
 Kyle 
 
 

Just did a re-install with all options to update and am still getting the same
error.

Kyle

RE: Re: Error on startup

[Steven Harms \(stharms\)]

Kyle,

I just tried the same thing last night - same issue.  

This is on WinXP ( my other install into CYGWIN and OSX went fine ).
Nevertheless this is something that I, too, am seeing.

Steven
 

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:45 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Error on startup

Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 
 Hello,
 
 I am receiving this error on startup:
 
 LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
 
 I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete 
 installer to see if this makes a difference.
 
 Any thoughts?
 
 Kyle
 
 

Just did a re-install with all options to update and am still getting
the same error.

Kyle

RE: Re: Error on startup

[Steven Harms \(stharms\)]

Actually, per Uwe's post earlier that perhaps the version of MiKTeX was
to blame, I did the update and am still having the issue you reported.

sgh
 

-Original Message-
From: Steven Harms (stharms) 
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 9:18 AM
To: Kyle; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: RE: Re: Error on startup

Kyle,

I just tried the same thing last night - same issue.  

This is on WinXP ( my other install into CYGWIN and OSX went fine ).
Nevertheless this is something that I, too, am seeing.

Steven
 

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:45 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Error on startup

Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 
 Hello,
 
 I am receiving this error on startup:
 
 LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
 
 I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete 
 installer to see if this makes a difference.
 
 Any thoughts?
 
 Kyle
 
 

Just did a re-install with all options to update and am still getting
the same error.

Kyle

Re: Using ACM and APA styles in LyX?

[Richard Heck]

The only classes you'll see in LyX itself are ones for which there are
layouts. To use the ACM class from LyX, you'll have to find or produce a
layout for it. Someone may have one, but one doesn't ship with LyX.

Steve Litt has a lot of experience with layouts. It's not terribly,
terribly hard to do, but it takes some work.

Richard

B. Bogart wrote:
 Hi Richard,

 I changed from tetex to texlive but I'm not seeing any change in the
 document classes I see in lyx.

 From tex info I can see the following classes I'm looking for:

 acmconf.cls
 acmtrans2e.cls
 apa.cls

 The document classes I can choose from document settings are:

 Article (APA)

 But no ACM.

 I don't see a good correlation between the list of document class and
 the text info list of classes.

 Any further suggestions?

 Thanks,
 B. Bogart


 Richard Heck wrote:
   
 LyX does have an APA layout, so you should be able to use it. Check to
 make sure you do have the APA document class installed and that LaTeX
 can see it (run texhash as root) and then reconfigure LyX (Tools 
 Reconfigure). You can use Tools  Tex Info to check what LyX thinks is
 there.

 I don't see an ACM layout. Anybody got one? It's unlikely it'd be hard
 to create one if not.

 As for references, natbib isn't a bibliography style but something more
 general. You can use apalike with it, to be sure. You can also use
 apacite by itself (and the apa.layout file seems to load apacite.sty,
 which you'd also want). Just choose default for your citation style
 and then, when you put the bibliography in its place (Insert  List
 
 Bibliography), choose apacite as your style. Of course, you'll need
   
 to make sure that's installed, too.

 Richard

 B. Bogart wrote:
 
 Hello all,

 I'm new to tex/latex/lyx but need to write papers in ACM and APA
 formats. I see that the package texlive-publishers includes APA and ACM
 document classes, and I have the package installed, but lyx does not see
 those templates.

 How can I use lyx to write APA and ACM papers? I also need my citations
 and bibliographies to be in the proper APA format, but lyx seems to only
 give three types citation styles? (default,natbib,jurabib)

 FYI I'm using the ubuntu edgy packages of lyx/tex

 Thanks all.

 B. Bogart



   
 

   


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Re: Error on startup

[Paul A. Rubin]

Kyle wrote:

Hello,

I am receiving this error on startup:

LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!

I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete installer
to see if this makes a difference.

Any thoughts?

Kyle 





Would this by any chance be on Windows, with MikTeX?  If so, there are a 
variety of potential problems.  If it's under OS/X or Linux, that's 
something else entirely.


/Paul

RE: Re: Error on startup

[Steven Harms \(stharms\)]

My instance of this issue is on XP.
 

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:45 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Error on startup

Kyle wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I am receiving this error on startup:
 
 LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
 
 I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete 
 installer to see if this makes a difference.
 
 Any thoughts?
 
 Kyle
 
 

Would this by any chance be on Windows, with MikTeX?  If so, there are a
variety of potential problems.  If it's under OS/X or Linux, that's
something else entirely.

/Paul

Re: Error on startup

[Paul A. Rubin]

Steven Harms (stharms) wrote:

My instance of this issue is on XP.


The following are listed in no particular order:

1.  When the LyX configuration script runs, it tests for the presence of 
some common LaTeX classes by attempting to compile a test document using 
each class.  If you are using MikTeX (as I suspect), and some of the 
classes are not yet installed, MikTeX will either (a) fail to compile 
the test documents, (b) attempt to download and install the missing 
classes, or (c) prompt you for permission to install them, depending on 
how it is set up.  Case (a) should result in the configuration script 
correctly recognizing that the classes are missing (letting it move on 
to other things).  Case (b), or case (c) if you answer 'yes', can run 
into problems if either you do not have an active Internet connection or 
the server from which MikTeX tries to download the packages becomes 
unresponsive.  The workaround for this is either to set MikTeX not to 
download missing packages (through MikTeX's Options program) or to 
answer 'no' if it prompts you.  Packages can always be downloaded and 
installed later (after which LyX should be reconfigured).


2.  If your XP account is set up to use a remote server (particularly if 
accessed by a UNC) as your home, misadventures will occur during 
configuration.  I think LyX should pop up a message specific to this, 
but I won't swear to it.  If you're not sure where your home is, open a 
DOS prompt and run 'set h'.  Look for HOMEDRIVE (hopefully C:, hopefully 
not \\someserver) and HOMEPATH.


3.  If you have both MikTeX and some other LaTeX program installed, with 
the other one first in the system command path, strange things can 
happen.  I used to have Cygwin installed, with Cygwin's bin directory 
(containing a version of latex.exe) ahead of MikTeX's bin directory on 
my path.  Cygwin's latex.exe didn't work with LyX, and since it was the 
one LyX found, configuration failed.


If none of this provides an answer, try the following.  Using Win 
Explorer to delete C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Application 
Data\LyX1.4.x (if it exists) and anything in it.  Open a DOS prompt in
C:\Documents and Settings\your id\Application Data.  Run 'path to 
LyX\python\python.exe path to LyX\Resources\configure.py'.  If it 
produces (in .\LyX1.4.x) a textclass.lst file with length  0, you 
should be able to run LyX.  If not, post the output and maybe someone 
can spot a clue.


HTH,

/Paul

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

I'll have a look, The registry settings made ba Adobe Reader are 
really complicated. Normally it should be correctly detected that 
Foxit is the default.
Now you have in your preferences for the PDF-format the viewer 
PDFViewWin7, correct?


No, it's PDFViewWin8. PDFViewWin7 does crash when I use it instead.


OK, then I made again a mistake in the latest version. Adober Reader seems to be very agressive once 
it is installed and sets registry values it shouldn't set when it isn't the default PDF viewer.


I'll fixx this for the next version with another way.

thanks for the info and regards
Uwe

Do not use LyX 1.5alpha releases from 01-02-2007 and 04-02-2007!

[Uwe Stöhr]

Hello Testers,

now I can reproduce all your problems here on a different machine. The problem are some missing 
unicode files in the Python distribution I shipped. As I have a full Python installation on nearly 
all of the machines I have access so I never noticed this problematic.
I'll provide another version tomorrow with the fixed python and the this time hopefully the correct 
fix for the PDF viewer problem.


(And it this is not enough it seems that the latest MiKTeX introduced a new bug, I'll have a closer 
look.)


I can understand if you now think that I'm an inaccurate dabbler - two buggy releases within one 
week is not excusable.


Shame on me!
Uwe

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

[Olivier Ripoll]

Olivier Ripoll wrote:

Hi Uwe,

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

- The first time I press ctrl-m to type a formula, 4 identical lines 
are printed in the console saying:

QFontengineWin: GetTextMetrics failed ()
No bad effect though, just this message.


Could you please report this to bugzilla?


Well, after changing the LyX.py, I cannot see it anymore (I do not 
remember changing anything else on this machine).


Haha kind of Murphy's law. I un-installed the old svn snapshot to 
update to 3-07 (04/02's  version) and I got these warnings again. Even 
after changing the LyX.py file. I guess I should open a bug report then. ;)


Best regards,

Olivier.

Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 04-02-2007 for Windows

[Olivier Ripoll]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Hello LyXTesters,

I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 04-02-2007:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12174 



This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced in 
the last release from 01-02-2007.


Ok, I've just installed it:
- PDFViewWin8 is still the program one set for viewing pdfs
- PDFViewWin7 still crashes
- The first ctrl-m spits 4 error lines in the console (already 
mentioned, I'll open a bug for this)
- I cannot open the help files. I have the same errors mentioned in this 
thread (unicodedata related). I do not have python installed, except 
with LyX, Inkscape and OOo directories.
- pdf updating does nothing. pdf viewing only give and up-to-date pdf if 
the old instance of the document is closed before generation.


Best regards,

Olivier.

PS: I found some unicodedata.py[ cd] on the web and on my HD (inkscape, 
OOo). Where should I drop them in LyX directories to have it to be 
recognised ?

How to keeping Enumerate items together?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

In my book created with the Book document class, I have a four item bullet 
list in environment Itemize. It pagebreaks after the second item, and even 
more lame than that, the next page is consumed with a graphic float, so the 
reader has to skip 2 pages to see the other two items.

Within my layout file, is there a simple way I can modify the Itemize 
environment so it tries hard not to break in the middle?

I'd like to stay with the Book document class, as my base document class, if 
at all possible. My experience is that when you keep switching base document 
classes to gain individual features, for every problem you solve two new ones 
pop up. Kind of like my hair :-)

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Do not use LyX 1.5alpha releases from 01-02-2007 and 04-02-2007!

[Olivier Ripoll]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Hello Testers,

now I can reproduce all your problems here on a different machine. The 
problem are some missing unicode files in the Python distribution I 
shipped. As I have a full Python installation on nearly all of the 
machines I have access so I never noticed this problematic.
I'll provide another version tomorrow with the fixed python and the this 
time hopefully the correct fix for the PDF viewer problem.


(And it this is not enough it seems that the latest MiKTeX introduced a 
new bug, I'll have a closer look.)


I can understand if you now think that I'm an inaccurate dabbler - two 
buggy releases within one week is not excusable.


Shame on me!
Uwe


No problem, I do not rely on LyX on Windows yet, I am just testing it.

Keep up the good work!

Best regards,

Olivier.

Re: Too many indices, LoT, LoF?

[curtis osterhoudt]

- Original Message 
From: Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, February 5, 2007 2:53:13 AM
Subject: Re: Too many indices, LoT, LoF?

Curtis Osterhoudt wrote:
 Hi, all,Upon compiling my LyX document, which contains lots of
 Includes, a Table of Contents, Index, Lists of Figures and Tables, etc.,
 the LyX frontend reports that there's No room for a new \write
 (similarly, using pdflatex from the command line on the .tex file fails).
 I've done a little searching online; most if not all of the documents I've
 found reference the Memoir class (which I'm not using; this happens to be a
 Koma-script Report master document), but it seems that it's actually more
 of an underlying TeX problem, and I simply have too many Indices, Lists,
 etc.  

Seems so. TeX is limited in this regard (to 16 \write streams). Cf.
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noroom

 As an attempt to remedy this, and get a nicely compiled document, 
 I've gone through each of the constituent files and deleted the any
 Indexes or Bibliography[ies] which are in comment boxes (I put them
 in originally to test indices and bibliographies for each individual file).

That won't help. Things in comment boxes are skipped by LaTeX anyway.

 However, this does not solve the problem, and I *still* get No room for a
 new \write and Bad number {16} as error messages from LyX. Has
 anyone run into this, and solved it? The documentation for the Memoir class
 says I have no recourse but to rearrange my document. How do people write
 books with this TeX limitation? Would it help to switch to TeX Live or
 something?  Thanks!   Curtis O.

There's no way to get rid of this limitation. You probably have to comment out 
the remaining Bibliographies, Indexes etc. by and by and see if that helps. 
Rearranging the document might indeed help as well, since the problem is not 
necessarily too many objects, but that too many write streams are used (TeX 
does not necessarily need one stream per object).

HTH,
Jürgen



==
Hi, LyXers,

 (I'm the same Curtis O. who sent the original message, but am sending from 
a different account, as Hotmail seems to fumble formatting from non-IE 
browsers.)

Thanks especially to Jürgen and Hellmut for their replies!

 I have solved the problem (at least temporarily), but through very little 
directed effort of my own. In attempting to get my master document back to the 
way it was a few days ago, I did a recovery of a backup file. Unfortunately, I 
wasn't very careful about how I did it, and managed to wipe out my entire 
thesis directory. Scary, but I had other backups (yay!). These other backups, 
however, did not include some work I'd done over the weekend, and so I was very 
sad (aw...). Luckily, LyX stores its information in files which can be grepped, 
so I learned far more about recovering files using grep than I've ever wanted 
to know. Although they appeared to be erased (and I use an ext3 filesystem, so 
recovery efforts are somewhat uncertain), I was able to recover the work I'd 
done on the weekend. 
  Once I had that back, I was in a perturbed enough state to really go 
through my master document and move things around (for example, I had a Front 
Matter file included in the master file, which itself included the front 
pages, signature page, acknowledgements and introduction to my thesis). I 
ripped out a lot of nested includes and more sanely arranged things in the 
master file -- this seems to be what Jürgen suggests, above. 

  Now things work, and look nicer than ever.

   On a  related note, I have always included an acknowledgement of the LyX 
team in a Technical Notes section of my thesis. This reads
 This document was written almost entirely in LyX. A huge 
heartfelt thanks is extended to the LyX developers.
  I'd like to know if this is acceptable to the developers.

  Thanks again!
 Curtis O.








 

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Re: Too many indices, LoT, LoF?

[José Matos]

On Monday 05 February 2007 6:49:20 pm curtis osterhoudt wrote:
       Now things work, and look nicer than ever.

        On a  related note, I have always included an acknowledgement of the
 LyX team in a Technical Notes section of my thesis. This reads This
 document was written almost entirely in LyX. A huge heartfelt thanks is
 extended to the LyX developers. I'd like to know if this is acceptable to
 the developers.

  You are welcome. :-)

       Thanks again!
                          Curtis O.

-- 
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Re: Do not use LyX 1.5alpha releases from 01-02-2007 and 04-02-2007!

[Mihai Nica]

it is very much excusable when it is about FREE software. it would be 
inexcusable if somebody would complain :-)

thanks!

- Original Message 
From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LyX Users List lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, February 5, 2007 12:05:29 PM
Subject: Do not use LyX 1.5alpha releases from 01-02-2007 and 04-02-2007!

Hello Testers,

now I can reproduce all your problems here on a different machine. The problem 
are some missing 
unicode files in the Python distribution I shipped. As I have a full Python 
installation on nearly 
all of the machines I have access so I never noticed this problematic.
I'll provide another version tomorrow with the fixed python and the this time 
hopefully the correct 
fix for the PDF viewer problem.

(And it this is not enough it seems that the latest MiKTeX introduced a new 
bug, I'll have a closer 
look.)

I can understand if you now think that I'm an inaccurate dabbler - two buggy 
releases within one 
week is not excusable.

Shame on me!
Uwe







 

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Re: Error on startup

[Ira]

Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 
 Steven Harms (stharms) wrote:
  My instance of this issue is on XP.
 
 The following are listed in no particular order:
 
 1.  When the LyX configuration script runs, it tests for the presence of 
 some common LaTeX classes by attempting to compile a test document using 
 each class.  If you are using MikTeX (as I suspect), and some of the 
 classes are not yet installed, MikTeX will either (a) fail to compile 
 the test documents, (b) attempt to download and install the missing 
 classes, or (c) prompt you for permission to install them, depending on 
 how it is set up.  Case (a) should result in the configuration script 
 correctly recognizing that the classes are missing (letting it move on 
 to other things).  Case (b), or case (c) if you answer 'yes', can run 
 into problems if either you do not have an active Internet connection or 
 the server from which MikTeX tries to download the packages becomes 
 unresponsive.  The workaround for this is either to set MikTeX not to 
 download missing packages (through MikTeX's Options program) or to 
 answer 'no' if it prompts you.  Packages can always be downloaded and 
 installed later (after which LyX should be reconfigured).
 


I was having a similar problem as the original poster on a XP box with MikTeX. I
found that if I deleted the textclass.lst and packages.lst files in my
application data folder and then re-started LyX, I was then given the option to
install missing MikTeX packages.  This time I hit cancel for every one of them
(I had about 30 with the default MikTeX install) and at the end, LyX popped up
fine.  For some reason when I tried to download and install a package from the
MikTeX updater launched by LyX, I was immediately given an error message the LyX
was unable to start.  I was able to install the packages just fine from the
MikTeX package browser utility.  

-Ira  

Re: How to keeping Enumerate items together?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Steve Litt wrote:


In my book created with the Book document class, I have a four item bullet 
list in environment Itemize. It pagebreaks after the second item, and even 
more lame than that, the next page is consumed with a graphic float, so the 
reader has to skip 2 pages to see the other two items.


Perhaps something at 
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nopagebrk will be of 
help.  I'm not sure there's a happy resolution (other than delaying the 
float by a page).  Keeping all four list items on the first page might 
cause a serious margin overrun, and moving all four to the next page 
might leave you with too much empty space.


Within my layout file, is there a simple way I can modify the Itemize 
environment so it tries hard not to break in the middle?


Be careful what you wish for.  This is liable to leave you with some 
large blocks of empty space at the ends of pages (assuming you can make 
it work).


I'd like to stay with the Book document class, as my base document class, if 
at all possible. My experience is that when you keep switching base document 
classes to gain individual features, for every problem you solve two new ones 
pop up. Kind of like my hair :-)


If two new hairs pop up where previously there were none, patent the 
formula!

Having my own layout removes navigation in LyX 1.4.2

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

As you all remember, when I switched to LyX 1.4.2 I griped that one of my 
books no longer had navigation.

Now the other shoe dropped. I've been writing a new book, using the book 
document class in LyX 1.4.2, and everything went well, with navigation and 
everything. Then I created my own layout file, deriving a tsjsbook layout 
derived from the book class. My new layout was minimal -- it did nothing 
except create a new environment called Story, which worked perfectly well 
when converting to dvi.

Trouble is, now when I try to do navigation in LyX itself, there's no 
navigation. The Nativate menu item lists only Bookmarks, Next Note, and List 
of Figures.

Also, one of my first books no longer works at all -- with the text going 
right up to the top of the page on every page.

What changed in 1.4.2 over the 1.3.x series? I'm in big trouble with all these 
books made in 1.3.x, and the inability to use navigation in 1.4.2 if I've 
created my own layout file is troubling indeed.

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Alt key stuck

[sas262_lists]

Hi I have something weird going on - 

whenever I press one of the following keys - pskxcm - and as far as I
can tell only those keys, Lyx thinks I had Meta-keyed instead. (e.g. I
press s and get Alt+S options: T Shift+S ... etc.)

tried clean reinstall, no good.

using Windows XP, tried with LyxWin1435Small-2-9 and ver 1435 from
lyx.org.

otherwise everything seems to be working.

Any ideas?

Seth
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Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

[Olivier Ripoll]

Hi Uwe,

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

- I can do a pdf with it fine, but the update does not work 
however my pdf viewer is Foxit 2.0, not Acrobat (which I do have 
installed, but not as default pdf reader), so it might be related to 
this.


I'll have a look, The registry settings made ba Adobe Reader are really 
complicated. Normally it should be correctly detected that Foxit is the 
default.
Now you have in your preferences for the PDF-format the viewer 
"PDFViewWin7", correct?


No, it's "PDFViewWin8". PDFViewWin7 does crash when I use it instead.

But what I noticed is that if I type some text, then view the pdf, do 
not close the pdf document, modify the LyX document and generate a new 
pdf, it will open but with the same content as the old one. If instead, 
after viewing, I close the pdf document, the one generated after the 
modifications will be up-to-date.


- The first time I press ctrl-m to type a formula, 4 identical lines 
are printed in the console saying:

QFontengineWin: GetTextMetrics failed ()
No bad effect though, just this message.


Could you please report this to bugzilla?


Well, after changing the LyX.py, I cannot see it anymore (I do not 
remember changing anything else on this machine).




regards Uwe



Best regards,

Olivier

Type 1 CM in LyX

[John Hughes]

When I export PDF documents from LyX for Windows (using any method), it uses 
the bitmap versions of the Computer Modern fonts. However, if I export a tex 
file to PDF through the Texmaker editor (again with Windows), it uses Type 1 
Computer Modern fonts. Why is this?


John

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Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution

[José Matos]

On Sunday 04 February 2007 2:29:04 pm Georg Baum wrote:
>
> What happens if you run the python interpreter by hand and then type
>
> import unicodedata
>
> ? If it prints nothing, then your python installation is OK, and I would
> guess that LyX finds another (incomplete) python installation. If it
> prints an error message then something with your python installation is
> wrong.

  Just for completeness it works on linux for both python 2.4 and 2.5, as it 
should according to http://docs.python.org/lib/module-unicodedata.html

  So if it does not work there is something wrong with your installation. :-(

> Georg

-- 
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Re: BibTeX and master documents

[Daniel Lohmann]

Thanks Richard,

Works like a charm :-)

Daniel

Richard Heck wrote:
> Use the technique mentioned here:
> http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChildMathMacros. More or less. And see below.
>> 1) Define a variable \master in the preamble of the master document
>> before including the common preamble:
> Define it to mean something.
>> \def\master*{whatever}*
>> \input{preamble.tex}
>>
> Don't need any of this.
>> 2) Define a new \ifnomaster in the common preamble that tests for
>> \master being defined or not
>>
>> % common preamble, input'ed into all children and the master
>> \newif\ifnomaster
>> \ifx\master\undefined
>>   \nomastertrue
>> \else
>>   \nomasterfalse
>> \fi
>>
>> 3) Use ERT boxes to conditionally include the bibliography at the end
>> of each child:
>>
>> ??ERT[*\ifx\master\undefined*]
>> [BibTeX Generated Bibliography]
>> ERT[\fi]
> Richard
> 
> 
> 

Re: Too many indices, LoT, LoF?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Curtis Osterhoudt wrote:
> Hi, all,Upon compiling my LyX document, which contains lots of
> Includes, a Table of Contents, Index, Lists of Figures and Tables, etc.,
> the LyX frontend reports that there's "No room for a new \write"
> (similarly, using pdflatex from the command line on the .tex file fails).
> I've done a little searching online; most if not all of the documents I've
> found reference the Memoir class (which I'm not using; this happens to be a
> Koma-script Report master document), but it seems that it's actually more
> of an underlying TeX problem, and I simply have too many Indices, Lists,
> etc.  

Seems so. TeX is limited in this regard (to 16 \write streams). Cf.
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noroom

> As an attempt to remedy this, and get a nicely compiled document, 
> I've gone through each of the constituent files and deleted the any
> "Index"es or "Bibliography"[ies] which are in "comment" boxes (I put them
> in originally to test indices and bibliographies for each individual file).

That won't help. Things in comment boxes are skipped by LaTeX anyway.

> However, this does not solve the problem, and I *still* get "No room for a
> new \write" and "Bad number {16}" as error messages from LyX. Has
> anyone run into this, and solved it? The documentation for the Memoir class
> says I have no recourse but to rearrange my document. How do people write
> books with this TeX limitation? Would it help to switch to TeX Live or
> something?  Thanks!   Curtis O.

There's no way to get rid of this limitation. You probably have to comment out 
the remaining Bibliographies, Indexes etc. by and by and see if that helps. 
Rearranging the document might indeed help as well, since the problem is not 
necessarily too many objects, but that too many write streams are used (TeX 
does not necessarily need one stream per object).

HTH,
Jürgen

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Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 04-02-2007 for Windows

[Nick Hopton]

In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote.


[...]

I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 04-02-2007:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_
id=12174

This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced in 
the last release from 01-02-2007.

[...]

Looking good here Uwe, so far. Old documents that wouldn't open in the 
last Alpha release open just fine now, as do the 'help' files.


One tiny but curious thing, I'm using Adobe Reader to view PDFs. When I 
press the PDF-button the PDF is produced, but the Reader window doesn't 
open, it stays closed on the taskbar. It's easy enough to pop this up to 
view the document, of course.


Regards and thanks,
Nick.

--
Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton
Caversham, Reading, England
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 04-02-2007 for Windows

[Nick Hopton]

In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Hopton 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote.

[...]

I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 04-02-2007:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_
id=12174

This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced 
in the last release from 01-02-2007.

[...]

Looking good here Uwe, so far. Old documents that wouldn't open in the 
last Alpha release open just fine now, as do the 'help' files.

[...]

I spoke too soon! The help document 'LyX's detailed Figure, Table, 
Floats, Notes, and Boxes manual, by the LyX Team Version 1.5.0-1' loads 
into LyX all right, but it won't produce a DVI or a PDF. It fails with a 
LaTeX Errors Box saying 'LaTeX Error: File 
`45C__Program_Files_LyX_1_5alpha-04-02-2007_Resources___doc'.


Regards,
Nick.
--
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Caversham, Reading, England
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[announce] LyX150alpha from 04-02-2007 for Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Hello LyXTesters,

I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 04-02-2007:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=12174

This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced in the last release from 
01-02-2007.


Now this know problem should is fixed with the new MiKTeX version that comes together with this 
installer:


- LyX's package and class database is incomplete when you don't have an
  open internet connection while LyX is first started. (This is a bug in 
MiKTeX.)
  Workaround: open an internet connection and reconfigure LyX

This hopefully also kills the textclass not found problem. Please report me if 
you
still have this problem.

!You don't need to reinstall MiKTeX to benefit from the fix, the installer will ask you to update 
MiKTeX.

Press Yes when this question is shown and that's it.

---

Here are the other changes:

- LyX 1.5alpha from 04-02-2007

- installer bugfixes introduced in the last release from 01-02-2007
- updated to MiKTeX 2.5.2580
- fix bug that other PDF viewers then Acrobat/Adobe Reader and GSView weren't 
recognized

Thanks to Allesandro Garberi:
- updated Italian translation of the installer

---

happy testing and best regards
Uwe

--- disclaimer ---
LyX' test builds are for testers and interested LyXers to see the new
features.
If you find bugs, please have a look at
http://bugzilla.lyx.org
and report them there if they aren't already reported.

Note! LyX150alpha is still in alpha state, that means it is under very
active development. Therefore things can change every day, so
don't use LyX1.5svn for production!

Error on startup

[Kyle]

Hello,

I am receiving this error on startup:

LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!

I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete installer
to see if this makes a difference.

Any thoughts?

Kyle 

Re: Error on startup

[Kyle]

Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am receiving this error on startup:
> 
> LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
> 
> I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete 
> installer
> to see if this makes a difference.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Kyle 
> 
> 

Just did a re-install with all options to update and am still getting the same
error.

Kyle

RE: Re: Error on startup

[Steven Harms \(stharms\)]

Kyle,

I just tried the same thing last night - same issue.  

This is on WinXP ( my other install into CYGWIN and OSX went fine ).
Nevertheless this is something that I, too, am seeing.

Steven
 

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:45 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Error on startup

Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am receiving this error on startup:
> 
> LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
> 
> I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete 
> installer to see if this makes a difference.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Kyle
> 
> 

Just did a re-install with all options to update and am still getting
the same error.

Kyle

RE: Re: Error on startup

[Steven Harms \(stharms\)]

Actually, per Uwe's post earlier that perhaps the version of MiKTeX was
to blame, I did the update and am still having the issue you reported.

sgh
 

-Original Message-
From: Steven Harms (stharms) 
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 9:18 AM
To: Kyle; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: RE: Re: Error on startup

Kyle,

I just tried the same thing last night - same issue.  

This is on WinXP ( my other install into CYGWIN and OSX went fine ).
Nevertheless this is something that I, too, am seeing.

Steven
 

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:45 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Error on startup

Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am receiving this error on startup:
> 
> LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
> 
> I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete 
> installer to see if this makes a difference.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Kyle
> 
> 

Just did a re-install with all options to update and am still getting
the same error.

Kyle

Re: Using ACM and APA styles in LyX?

[Richard Heck]

The only classes you'll see in LyX itself are ones for which there are
layouts. To use the ACM class from LyX, you'll have to find or produce a
layout for it. Someone may have one, but one doesn't ship with LyX.

Steve Litt has a lot of experience with layouts. It's not terribly,
terribly hard to do, but it takes some work.

Richard

B. Bogart wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> I changed from tetex to texlive but I'm not seeing any change in the
> document classes I see in lyx.
>
> From tex info I can see the following classes I'm looking for:
>
> acmconf.cls
> acmtrans2e.cls
> apa.cls
>
> The document classes I can choose from document settings are:
>
> Article (APA)
>
> But no ACM.
>
> I don't see a good correlation between the list of "document class" and
> the text info list of classes.
>
> Any further suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> B. Bogart
>
>
> Richard Heck wrote:
>   
>> LyX does have an APA layout, so you should be able to use it. Check to
>> make sure you do have the APA document class installed and that LaTeX
>> can see it (run texhash as root) and then reconfigure LyX (Tools >
>> Reconfigure). You can use Tools > Tex Info to check what LyX thinks is
>> there.
>>
>> I don't see an ACM layout. Anybody got one? It's unlikely it'd be hard
>> to create one if not.
>>
>> As for references, natbib isn't a bibliography style but something more
>> general. You can use apalike with it, to be sure. You can also use
>> apacite by itself (and the apa.layout file seems to load apacite.sty,
>> which you'd also want). Just choose "default" for your citation style
>> and then, when you put the bibliography in its place (Insert > List
>> 
>>> Bibliography), choose "apacite" as your style. Of course, you'll need
>>>   
>> to make sure that's installed, too.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>> B. Bogart wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I'm new to tex/latex/lyx but need to write papers in ACM and APA
>>> formats. I see that the package texlive-publishers includes APA and ACM
>>> document classes, and I have the package installed, but lyx does not see
>>> those templates.
>>>
>>> How can I use lyx to write APA and ACM papers? I also need my citations
>>> and bibliographies to be in the proper APA format, but lyx seems to only
>>> give three types citation styles? (default,natbib,jurabib)
>>>
>>> FYI I'm using the ubuntu edgy packages of lyx/tex
>>>
>>> Thanks all.
>>>
>>> B. Bogart
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>> 
>
>   


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Re: Error on startup

[Paul A. Rubin]

Kyle wrote:

Hello,

I am receiving this error on startup:

LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!

I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete installer
to see if this makes a difference.

Any thoughts?

Kyle 





Would this by any chance be on Windows, with MikTeX?  If so, there are a 
variety of potential problems.  If it's under OS/X or Linux, that's 
something else entirely.


/Paul

RE: Re: Error on startup

[Steven Harms \(stharms\)]

My instance of this issue is on XP.
 

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:45 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Error on startup

Kyle wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am receiving this error on startup:
> 
> LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
> 
> I tried updating everything I can and am now downloading the complete 
> installer to see if this makes a difference.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Kyle
> 
> 

Would this by any chance be on Windows, with MikTeX?  If so, there are a
variety of potential problems.  If it's under OS/X or Linux, that's
something else entirely.

/Paul

Re: Error on startup

[Paul A. Rubin]

Steven Harms (stharms) wrote:

My instance of this issue is on XP.


The following are listed in no particular order:

1.  When the LyX configuration script runs, it tests for the presence of 
some common LaTeX classes by attempting to compile a test document using 
each class.  If you are using MikTeX (as I suspect), and some of the 
classes are not yet installed, MikTeX will either (a) fail to compile 
the test documents, (b) attempt to download and install the missing 
classes, or (c) prompt you for permission to install them, depending on 
how it is set up.  Case (a) should result in the configuration script 
correctly recognizing that the classes are missing (letting it move on 
to other things).  Case (b), or case (c) if you answer 'yes', can run 
into problems if either you do not have an active Internet connection or 
the server from which MikTeX tries to download the packages becomes 
unresponsive.  The workaround for this is either to set MikTeX not to 
download missing packages (through MikTeX's Options program) or to 
answer 'no' if it prompts you.  Packages can always be downloaded and 
installed later (after which LyX should be reconfigured).


2.  If your XP account is set up to use a remote server (particularly if 
accessed by a UNC) as your home, misadventures will occur during 
configuration.  I think LyX should pop up a message specific to this, 
but I won't swear to it.  If you're not sure where your home is, open a 
DOS prompt and run 'set h'.  Look for HOMEDRIVE (hopefully C:, hopefully 
not \\someserver) and HOMEPATH.


3.  If you have both MikTeX and some other LaTeX program installed, with 
the other one first in the system command path, strange things can 
happen.  I used to have Cygwin installed, with Cygwin's bin directory 
(containing a version of latex.exe) ahead of MikTeX's bin directory on 
my path.  Cygwin's latex.exe didn't work with LyX, and since it was the 
one LyX found, configuration failed.


If none of this provides an answer, try the following.  Using Win 
Explorer to delete C:\Documents and Settings\\Application 
Data\LyX1.4.x (if it exists) and anything in it.  Open a DOS prompt in
C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data.  Run 'LyX>\python\python.exe \Resources\configure.py'.  If it 
produces (in .\LyX1.4.x) a textclass.lst file with length > 0, you 
should be able to run LyX.  If not, post the output and maybe someone 
can spot a clue.


HTH,

/Paul

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

I'll have a look, The registry settings made ba Adobe Reader are 
really complicated. Normally it should be correctly detected that 
Foxit is the default.
Now you have in your preferences for the PDF-format the viewer 
"PDFViewWin7", correct?


No, it's "PDFViewWin8". PDFViewWin7 does crash when I use it instead.


OK, then I made again a mistake in the latest version. Adober Reader seems to be very agressive once 
it is installed and sets registry values it shouldn't set when it isn't the default PDF viewer.


I'll fixx this for the next version with another way.

thanks for the info and regards
Uwe

Do not use LyX 1.5alpha releases from 01-02-2007 and 04-02-2007!

[Uwe Stöhr]

Hello Testers,

now I can reproduce all your problems here on a different machine. The problem are some missing 
unicode files in the Python distribution I shipped. As I have a full Python installation on nearly 
all of the machines I have access so I never noticed this problematic.
I'll provide another version tomorrow with the fixed python and the this time hopefully the correct 
fix for the PDF viewer problem.


(And it this is not enough it seems that the latest MiKTeX introduced a new bug, I'll have a closer 
look.)


I can understand if you now think that I'm an inaccurate dabbler - two buggy releases within one 
week is not excusable.


Shame on me!
Uwe

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

[Olivier Ripoll]

Olivier Ripoll wrote:

Hi Uwe,

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

- The first time I press ctrl-m to type a formula, 4 identical lines 
are printed in the console saying:

QFontengineWin: GetTextMetrics failed ()
No bad effect though, just this message.


Could you please report this to bugzilla?


Well, after changing the LyX.py, I cannot see it anymore (I do not 
remember changing anything else on this machine).


Haha kind of Murphy's law. I un-installed the old svn snapshot to 
update to 3-07 (04/02's  version) and I got these warnings again. Even 
after changing the LyX.py file. I guess I should open a bug report then. ;)


Best regards,

Olivier.

Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 04-02-2007 for Windows

[Olivier Ripoll]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Hello LyXTesters,

I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 04-02-2007:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=12174 



This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced in 
the last release from 01-02-2007.


Ok, I've just installed it:
- PDFViewWin8 is still the program one set for viewing pdfs
- PDFViewWin7 still crashes
- The first ctrl-m spits 4 error lines in the console (already 
mentioned, I'll open a bug for this)
- I cannot open the help files. I have the same errors mentioned in this 
thread (unicodedata related). I do not have python installed, except 
with LyX, Inkscape and OOo directories.
- pdf updating does nothing. pdf viewing only give and up-to-date pdf if 
the old instance of the document is closed before generation.


Best regards,

Olivier.

PS: I found some unicodedata.py[ cd] on the web and on my HD (inkscape, 
OOo). Where should I drop them in LyX directories to have it to be 
recognised ?

How to keeping Enumerate items together?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

In my book created with the Book document class, I have a four item bullet 
list in environment Itemize. It pagebreaks after the second item, and even 
more lame than that, the next page is consumed with a graphic float, so the 
reader has to skip 2 pages to see the other two items.

Within my layout file, is there a simple way I can modify the Itemize 
environment so it tries hard not to break in the middle?

I'd like to stay with the Book document class, as my base document class, if 
at all possible. My experience is that when you keep switching base document 
classes to gain individual features, for every problem you solve two new ones 
pop up. Kind of like my hair :-)

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Do not use LyX 1.5alpha releases from 01-02-2007 and 04-02-2007!

[Olivier Ripoll]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Hello Testers,

now I can reproduce all your problems here on a different machine. The 
problem are some missing unicode files in the Python distribution I 
shipped. As I have a full Python installation on nearly all of the 
machines I have access so I never noticed this problematic.
I'll provide another version tomorrow with the fixed python and the this 
time hopefully the correct fix for the PDF viewer problem.


(And it this is not enough it seems that the latest MiKTeX introduced a 
new bug, I'll have a closer look.)


I can understand if you now think that I'm an inaccurate dabbler - two 
buggy releases within one week is not excusable.


Shame on me!
Uwe


No problem, I do not rely on LyX on Windows yet, I am just testing it.

Keep up the good work!

Best regards,

Olivier.

Re: Too many indices, LoT, LoF?

[curtis osterhoudt]

- Original Message 
From: Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, February 5, 2007 2:53:13 AM
Subject: Re: Too many indices, LoT, LoF?

Curtis Osterhoudt wrote:
> Hi, all,Upon compiling my LyX document, which contains lots of
> Includes, a Table of Contents, Index, Lists of Figures and Tables, etc.,
> the LyX frontend reports that there's "No room for a new \write"
> (similarly, using pdflatex from the command line on the .tex file fails).
> I've done a little searching online; most if not all of the documents I've
> found reference the Memoir class (which I'm not using; this happens to be a
> Koma-script Report master document), but it seems that it's actually more
> of an underlying TeX problem, and I simply have too many Indices, Lists,
> etc.  

Seems so. TeX is limited in this regard (to 16 \write streams). Cf.
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noroom

> As an attempt to remedy this, and get a nicely compiled document, 
> I've gone through each of the constituent files and deleted the any
> "Index"es or "Bibliography"[ies] which are in "comment" boxes (I put them
> in originally to test indices and bibliographies for each individual file).

That won't help. Things in comment boxes are skipped by LaTeX anyway.

> However, this does not solve the problem, and I *still* get "No room for a
> new \write" and "Bad number {16}" as error messages from LyX. Has
> anyone run into this, and solved it? The documentation for the Memoir class
> says I have no recourse but to rearrange my document. How do people write
> books with this TeX limitation? Would it help to switch to TeX Live or
> something?  Thanks!   Curtis O.

There's no way to get rid of this limitation. You probably have to comment out 
the remaining Bibliographies, Indexes etc. by and by and see if that helps. 
Rearranging the document might indeed help as well, since the problem is not 
necessarily too many objects, but that too many write streams are used (TeX 
does not necessarily need one stream per object).

HTH,
Jürgen



==
Hi, LyXers,

 (I'm the same Curtis O. who sent the original message, but am sending from 
a different account, as Hotmail seems to fumble formatting from non-IE 
browsers.)

Thanks especially to Jürgen and Hellmut for their replies!

 I have solved the problem (at least temporarily), but through very little 
directed effort of my own. In attempting to get my master document back to the 
way it was a few days ago, I did a recovery of a backup file. Unfortunately, I 
wasn't very careful about how I did it, and managed to wipe out my entire 
thesis directory. Scary, but I had other backups (yay!). These other backups, 
however, did not include some work I'd done over the weekend, and so I was very 
sad (aw...). Luckily, LyX stores its information in files which can be grepped, 
so I learned far more about recovering files using grep than I've ever wanted 
to know. Although they appeared to be erased (and I use an ext3 filesystem, so 
recovery efforts are somewhat uncertain), I was able to recover the work I'd 
done on the weekend. 
  Once I had that back, I was in a perturbed enough state to really go 
through my master document and move things around (for example, I had a "Front 
Matter" file included in the master file, which itself included the front 
pages, signature page, acknowledgements and introduction to my thesis). I 
ripped out a lot of nested "includes" and more sanely arranged things in the 
master file -- this seems to be what Jürgen suggests, above. 

  Now things work, and look nicer than ever.

   On a  related note, I have always included an acknowledgement of the LyX 
team in a "Technical Notes" section of my thesis. This reads
 "This document was written almost entirely in LyX. A huge 
heartfelt thanks is extended to the LyX developers."
  I'd like to know if this is acceptable to the developers.

  Thanks again!
 Curtis O.








 

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Re: Too many indices, LoT, LoF?

[José Matos]

On Monday 05 February 2007 6:49:20 pm curtis osterhoudt wrote:
>       Now things work, and look nicer than ever.
>
>        On a  related note, I have always included an acknowledgement of the
> LyX team in a "Technical Notes" section of my thesis. This reads "This
> document was written almost entirely in LyX. A huge heartfelt thanks is
> extended to the LyX developers." I'd like to know if this is acceptable to
> the developers.

  You are welcome. :-)

>       Thanks again!
>                          Curtis O.

-- 
José Abílio

Re: Do not use LyX 1.5alpha releases from 01-02-2007 and 04-02-2007!

[Mihai Nica]

it is very much excusable when it is about FREE software. it would be 
inexcusable if somebody would complain :-)

thanks!

- Original Message 
From: Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: LyX Users List 
Sent: Monday, February 5, 2007 12:05:29 PM
Subject: Do not use LyX 1.5alpha releases from 01-02-2007 and 04-02-2007!

Hello Testers,

now I can reproduce all your problems here on a different machine. The problem 
are some missing 
unicode files in the Python distribution I shipped. As I have a full Python 
installation on nearly 
all of the machines I have access so I never noticed this problematic.
I'll provide another version tomorrow with the fixed python and the this time 
hopefully the correct 
fix for the PDF viewer problem.

(And it this is not enough it seems that the latest MiKTeX introduced a new 
bug, I'll have a closer 
look.)

I can understand if you now think that I'm an inaccurate dabbler - two buggy 
releases within one 
week is not excusable.

Shame on me!
Uwe







 

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Re: Error on startup

[Ira]

Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> Steven Harms (stharms) wrote:
> > My instance of this issue is on XP.
> 
> The following are listed in no particular order:
> 
> 1.  When the LyX configuration script runs, it tests for the presence of 
> some common LaTeX classes by attempting to compile a test document using 
> each class.  If you are using MikTeX (as I suspect), and some of the 
> classes are not yet installed, MikTeX will either (a) fail to compile 
> the test documents, (b) attempt to download and install the missing 
> classes, or (c) prompt you for permission to install them, depending on 
> how it is set up.  Case (a) should result in the configuration script 
> correctly recognizing that the classes are missing (letting it move on 
> to other things).  Case (b), or case (c) if you answer 'yes', can run 
> into problems if either you do not have an active Internet connection or 
> the server from which MikTeX tries to download the packages becomes 
> unresponsive.  The workaround for this is either to set MikTeX not to 
> download missing packages (through MikTeX's Options program) or to 
> answer 'no' if it prompts you.  Packages can always be downloaded and 
> installed later (after which LyX should be reconfigured).
> 
>

I was having a similar problem as the original poster on a XP box with MikTeX. I
found that if I deleted the textclass.lst and packages.lst files in my
application data folder and then re-started LyX, I was then given the option to
install missing MikTeX packages.  This time I hit cancel for every one of them
(I had about 30 with the default MikTeX install) and at the end, LyX popped up
fine.  For some reason when I tried to download and install a package from the
MikTeX updater launched by LyX, I was immediately given an error message the LyX
was unable to start.  I was able to install the packages just fine from the
MikTeX package browser utility.  

-Ira  

Re: How to keeping Enumerate items together?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Steve Litt wrote:


In my book created with the Book document class, I have a four item bullet 
list in environment Itemize. It pagebreaks after the second item, and even 
more lame than that, the next page is consumed with a graphic float, so the 
reader has to skip 2 pages to see the other two items.


Perhaps something at 
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nopagebrk will be of 
help.  I'm not sure there's a happy resolution (other than delaying the 
float by a page).  Keeping all four list items on the first page might 
cause a serious margin overrun, and moving all four to the next page 
might leave you with too much empty space.


Within my layout file, is there a simple way I can modify the Itemize 
environment so it tries hard not to break in the middle?


Be careful what you wish for.  This is liable to leave you with some 
large blocks of empty space at the ends of pages (assuming you can make 
it work).


I'd like to stay with the Book document class, as my base document class, if 
at all possible. My experience is that when you keep switching base document 
classes to gain individual features, for every problem you solve two new ones 
pop up. Kind of like my hair :-)


If two new hairs pop up where previously there were none, patent the 
formula!

Having my own layout removes navigation in LyX 1.4.2

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

As you all remember, when I switched to LyX 1.4.2 I griped that one of my 
books no longer had navigation.

Now the other shoe dropped. I've been writing a new book, using the book 
document class in LyX 1.4.2, and everything went well, with navigation and 
everything. Then I created my own layout file, deriving a tsjsbook layout 
derived from the book class. My new layout was minimal -- it did nothing 
except create a new environment called Story, which worked perfectly well 
when converting to dvi.

Trouble is, now when I try to do navigation in LyX itself, there's no 
navigation. The Nativate menu item lists only Bookmarks, Next Note, and List 
of Figures.

Also, one of my first books no longer works at all -- with the text going 
right up to the top of the page on every page.

What changed in 1.4.2 over the 1.3.x series? I'm in big trouble with all these 
books made in 1.3.x, and the inability to use navigation in 1.4.2 if I've 
created my own layout file is troubling indeed.

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Alt key "stuck"

[sas262_lists]

Hi I have something weird going on - 

whenever I press one of the following keys - pskxcm - and as far as I
can tell only those keys, Lyx thinks I had Meta-keyed instead. (e.g. I
press "s" and get Alt+S options: T Shift+S ... etc.)

tried clean reinstall, no good.

using Windows XP, tried with LyxWin1435Small-2-9 and ver 1435 from
lyx.org.

otherwise everything seems to be working.

Any ideas?

Seth
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